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FILING AND DELIVERING APPARATU FOR PHUNOGRAPH RECORDS.

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1,297,306. Patented Mar. 11,1919.

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Wot/VEYg ALFRED A. DE MARS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

FILING AND DELIVERING APPARATUS FOR PHONOGRAPH-RECORDS.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1919.

Applieationflled January 12, 1918. Serial No. 211,490.

'paratus, for Phonograph-Records, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The object of the present invention is to provide a convenient and satisfactory filing cabinet or receptacle for storing disk phonograph records or like articles. It is desirable of course in such a-cabinet to conserve space by placing the articles as closely together as possible, but this in turn renders it correspondingly difiicult, in all constructions with which I am familiar, to locate and abstract any particular record or article which it may be desired to use, as well as to replace such article when finished therewith.

By means of the present improvements I am enabled to instantly locate and displace from the collection any desired record, while at the same time the latter are filed away in as compact form as possible, it being recognized as undesirable that they should be directly in contact with eachother.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the annexed drawings and the following description setting forth in detail certain mechanism embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawings Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a cabinet embodying my present improvements; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same, the plane of the section being indicated by the line 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a vertical section at ri ht angles to that of Fig. 1, the plane of t e section being indicated by the line 33, Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. l'is an enlarged view, partly in elevation and partly in section, of a detail of the mechanism; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the movable trays forming a feature of the mechanism; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the index plate utilized to properly locate the operating mechanism with respect to the desired record or tray.

The cabinet 1 illustrated in the drawings just described is the one usually provided in a phonograph or talking machine of the socalled cabinet type; in other words, it comprises the lower portion of the case, the

talking machine 2 with. its inclosed horn or amplifier 3 occupying the upper portion of such case. It will be understood, however, that my present improvements may be equally well employed in a cabinet designed exclusively for storing records or like articles in which compactness combined with accessibility are desiderata.

The records in the specific construction illustratedare designed to be received and held in swinging trays 5 of the form clearly shown in Fig. 5. These trays are pivotally hung at one side on a vertical spindle 6 secured in the cabinet, while their other or opposite sides are formed with flanges 7 to engage suitable slots 8 in the adjacent side sleeve 10 vertically adjustable on a spindle 11 mounted in one of the rear corners of the cabinet. By shifting the position of the sleeve on this spindle the finger in question may be brought into position to engage With any selected tray, as indicated in Fig. 4.

Such change in location of the sleeve, and thus of the finger, is effected through the medium of a series of levers best shown in Fig. 3, such series including a manually operable lever 12 pivotally attached at one end to the bottom of the cabinet, and having its upper end projecting above the bed 13 of the talking machine in the upper portion of the cabinet. This end works in a slot 14: in such bed, and an index plate 15 is provided in conjunction therewith, the designations on this plate corresponding with the designations applied to the corresponding trays with which the finger cooperates. The connections between this manuallyoperable lever and the sleeve 10 that carries the finger 9, comprise, as shown, a link 16 and a bell- 18 of the fork being slotted to engage oppositely projecting pins 19 on such sleeve.

Oscillation of the finger 9, in whatever position it may be thus located, is designed to whenever the latter is swung open the bar 22 Will be simultaneously swung, and actuate the finger inwardly as shown in dotted out line in Fig. 2. The effect of such actuation of the finger is to displace the corresponding tray, so that the latter occupies the position likewise shown in dotted outline in the same figure. When thus displaced the record carried by said tray may be readily removed, as will be obvious, the front edge of the tray being recessed to enable the operator the more readily to seize the'record.

The general operation of the device, has, it is believed, been sufficiently indicated in connection with the foregoing description of its component parts. It is merely necessary, in other words, in order to swing a tray into position shown in dotted outline in Fig. 2 as just described, to bring the upper end of the lever 12 adjacent'the character on the index plate 15 corresponding with said tray, and then to open the door of the cabinet, whereupon the selected tray automatically presents the desired record to the hand of the operator. The operation is of course the same when it is desired to return a record to its appropriate place in the cabinet.

' omitting one of the trays, preferably at the top or bottom of the series, the door of the cabinet may be swung without displacing any such tray, provided the lever be swung into this blank position. It will also be understood that the door need not necessarily be utilized to oscillate the finger, but this may be left for manual operation, the link 23 in such case being simply detached from the door and left to be thus directly manipulated.

It will also be understood that the use of trays to carry the records may be found unnecessary where the records are of suflicient thickness and otherwise substantial enough to sustain themselves, if supported only at their edges. In such event, the records may the one explained, change being made as regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means stated by any of the following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invent1on:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a cabinet provided with means for slidably storing a plurality of disk phonograph records or like articles, said cabinet also having a door; and a member movable into operative relation with any selected record adapted to displace the same, iaid door being adapted to actuate said mem- 2. In a device of the character described,

the combination of a cabinet; a series of horizontally swinging trays in'said cabinet, each adapted to hold a disk phonograph rec- 0rd; and a finger vertically slidable into position adjacent to any selected tray and oscillatory in a horizontal plane to displace such tray.

3. In a device of .the character described, the combination of a cabinet; a series of horizontallyswinging trays in said cabinet, each adapted to hold a disk phonograph rec 0rd; 9. finger vertically slidable into position adjacent to any selected tray and oscillatory in a horizontal plane to displace such tray;

and 'means, including a manually operable lever having an index plate in association therewith, adapted to locate said finger.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination of a cabinet having a door; ,a series of horizontally swinging trays in said cabinet, each adapted to hold a disk phonograph record; a finger vertically slidable into position adjacent to any selected tray and oscillatory in a horizontal plane to displace such tray, said door being adapted to oscillate said finger; and means, including a manually operable lever having an index plate in association therewith, adapted to locate said finger.

Signed by me this 8th day of January,

ALFRED A. DE MARS. 

